Jim Blue wrote:
>Since you collect Baseball fiction, have you found
the Bill Brashler,
>Duffy House, baseball mysteries written under the
name Crabbe Evers? As
far
>as I know they include:
Bleeding
Dodger Blue
Murder in
Wrigley Field
Fear in
Fenway
Tigers
Burning
>Brashler also wrote the fine non-mystery baseball
novel "The Bingo Long
>Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings," under his own
name.
Actually the series written under the pseudonym of Crabbe
Evers was written by William Brashler and Reinder Van Til.
Duffy House is the main character who works as an
investigator for the commissioner of baseball. There is a
fifth book in the series titled Murderers' Row.
I am certainly well aware of Brashler's The Bingo Long
Travelling All-Stars
& Motor Kings. In honour of this fictitious barnstorming
team, I named the slopitch team I formed 25 seasons ago, The
Touring All-Stars, and our first t-shirts carried the artwork
from the PB version of his novel. My teammates quickly
changed the name to the TKM Touring All-Stars and it remained
that way until Labatt's Breweries started sponsoring the team
in the early 1980s. We now have two teams with the masters
team called the TKM Touring All-Star Old-Stars. A highlight
of my book collecting mania came about 10 years ago when I
found a rare first edition of Brashler's book for $6.00 on
the bottom shelf of the used fiction section in Halsam's
wonderful store in St. Petersburg, FL.
Speaking of Murderers' Row, Otto Penzler has edited a book of
baseball mystery short stories with that same title. While I
have only read a couple, the authors include Lawrence Block,
Max Allan Collins, Michael Connelly, K.C. Constantine, Elmore
Leonard and Robert Parker so there should be some stories
that will appeal to members of this list.
I have just finished Jon A. Jackson's Man with an Axe (1998),
which likely will end up on my top ten list for 2002 even
though it's the first book of fiction I have read this year.
I can't understand why Jackson doesn't receive more acclaim
for his Fang Mulheisen series.
Kent Morgan in Winnipeg
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